1st batch of BD workers to leave for KL Mar 10
Staff Reporter :
The flight of the first batch of 200 Bangladeshi workers will leaves for Kuala Lumpur on March 10.
“Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam is expected to inaugurate the much-awaited flight to KL on March 10,” Jabed Ahmed, the Additional Secretary (Admin) of the Ministry of Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment said.
Sources said, the workers will be employed in construction, plantation, manufacturing and service sectors. They are going to Malaysia under the government-to-government (G2G) Plus scheme, after about eight years of restriction on Bangladeshi workers by the Malaysian government.
The Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (BAIRA) President Benjir Ahmed said, about 500 workers will leave Dhaka for KL in three batches from March 10 to 15.
Two hundred workers will fly by a Malaysian Airlines on March 10, 2nd batch of 100 workers and the third batch of 200 workers will leave by Biman Bangladesh Airlines on March 12 and 15, respectively, he added.
The BAIRA chief said, 10 authorised recruiting agencies are sending workers to Malaysia, though more than 270 agencies are associated with the process.
Replying to a question, Benjir Ahmed said, most of the workers who got recruiting authority have completed their bio-medial tests. The bio-medical test of the others are on.
Additional Secretary Jabed Ahmed said that they have so far received about 9,000 demand letters from Malaysian employers. The Ministry has given recruiting approval to 5,700.
In the mid-January, Malaysian employers started sending demand letters to the Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur to hire Bangladeshi workers under the G2G Plus agreement. The Malaysian government stopped hiring Bangladeshi workers in 2009 after experiencing the entry of a large number of illegal workers between 2007 and 2008.
After a long time, the two countries signed the G2G Plus deal in February last year.
The flight of the first batch of 200 Bangladeshi workers will leaves for Kuala Lumpur on March 10.
“Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam is expected to inaugurate the much-awaited flight to KL on March 10,” Jabed Ahmed, the Additional Secretary (Admin) of the Ministry of Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment said.
Sources said, the workers will be employed in construction, plantation, manufacturing and service sectors. They are going to Malaysia under the government-to-government (G2G) Plus scheme, after about eight years of restriction on Bangladeshi workers by the Malaysian government.
The Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (BAIRA) President Benjir Ahmed said, about 500 workers will leave Dhaka for KL in three batches from March 10 to 15.
Two hundred workers will fly by a Malaysian Airlines on March 10, 2nd batch of 100 workers and the third batch of 200 workers will leave by Biman Bangladesh Airlines on March 12 and 15, respectively, he added.
The BAIRA chief said, 10 authorised recruiting agencies are sending workers to Malaysia, though more than 270 agencies are associated with the process.
Replying to a question, Benjir Ahmed said, most of the workers who got recruiting authority have completed their bio-medial tests. The bio-medical test of the others are on.
Additional Secretary Jabed Ahmed said that they have so far received about 9,000 demand letters from Malaysian employers. The Ministry has given recruiting approval to 5,700.
In the mid-January, Malaysian employers started sending demand letters to the Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur to hire Bangladeshi workers under the G2G Plus agreement. The Malaysian government stopped hiring Bangladeshi workers in 2009 after experiencing the entry of a large number of illegal workers between 2007 and 2008.
After a long time, the two countries signed the G2G Plus deal in February last year.
